A Meridian Hill civic association is applying to downzone a piece of land set to become a new apartment building. The Zoning Commission and Historic Preservation Review Board recently approved the plans for the 110-unit building. (Nena Perry-Brown / Urban Turf)Twitter

DC is looking for maintenance contracters for the family homeless shelters in Wards 4, 7, and 8 that are slated to open this fall. Two of the shelters had construction delays, but the city still wants to open them on schedule to move people out of deteriorating conditions in the existing shelter. (Andrew Giambrone / Curbed)Twitter

There are 296 hyperlocal Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats on the ballot this November, with incumbents running for reelection in 202 of them. Only about one third of all the ANC races are contested, and only 14 races feature more than two candidates for the seat. (Chris Kain / DC Line)Twitter

Four thousand students are expected to attend TC Williams High School this fall, and enrollment is projected to rise in subsequent years. Alexandria hasn't decided whether it should open a new school or expand TC Williams to accomodate the growing student population. (Debbie Truong / Post)Twitter

Work is already underway to add curb extensions and rebuild medians near the intersection with 12th Street. Later this fall, a larger project will add ADA-accessible bus stops, new signals, and trail improvements between S. Arlington Mill Drive to S. Four Mile Run Drive. (Melanie Pincus / ARLnow)Twitter

Virginia Democrats sued the Board of Elections, alleging that the congressional representative for Accomack and Virginia Beach had his staff forge signatures to help put a third party candidate on the ballot to split the vote in the November midterms. (Jenna Portnoy / Post)Twitter

The mayor's office estimated that DC spent $2.6 million on the rally, mostly on police services. The city drew the money from a federal emergency security fund and plans on having the federal government reimburse it. (Brittany Shepherd / Washingtonian)Twitter